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Diabetes

Have you been diagnosed with diabetes or have a pre-diabetic condition, or think you might be developing the disease, or just want to know a bit more about the condition and how to avoid or control it, here are some basic statistics about the disease that you might find interesting. Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a chronic metabolic condition in which the sufferer has high levels of blood glucose (sugar). This is due to the pancreas either not producing enough insulin, or because the body does not respond to the insulin that is produced. It is an increasingly common condition, and statistics from the World Health Organization reports that there are over 346 million diabetes sufferers worldwide, and that 90% suffer from Type 2 diabetes. This book has help millions of people in the world to discover Problems and complications associated with diabetes.